tailieunhanh - Summary Measures of Population Health - Concepts, Ethics, Measurement and Applications

The objective of this SME- driven research is to distinguish responders and/or adverse responders from non-responders to drugs that are already established treatments through the identification and characterisation of genome-based biomarkers. The research may focus on adults, children and/or the elderly where appropriate. Ethical, social, legal and public health aspects, as well as health technology assessments (health economics, cost effectiveness) will be considered. The research should lead to validated pharmacogenomic methods to predict responses to drug treatment, avoid chronicity, prevent relapse and reduce adverse effects. Research should focus on a disease where there is evidence of variable clinical response(s) to. | Summary Measures of Population Health Concepts Ethics Measurement and Applications Edited by Christopher . Murray Joshua A. Salomon Colin D. Mathers and Alan D. Lopez World Health Organization Geneva Summary Measures of Population Health Description of the cover artwork The cover illustration is based on a simple graphical heuristic illustrating the key elements of summary measures of population health see p. 16 . From left to right the segments of the graph represent time lived in full health time lived in less than full health and time lost due to premature .